How Scrappy Cryptominer CoreWeave Transformed Into the Multibillion-Dollar Backbone of the AI Boom

How Scrappy Cryptominer CoreWeave Transformed Into the Multibillion-Dollar Backbone of the AI Boom

Fulfilling the world’s surging demand for AI chatbots and image generators depends on mundane components as much as glitzy GPUs. Server cabinets, heavy-duty metal enclosures to store GPU systems, have at times been a crucial bottleneck. As it scrambled to build up its facilities, CoreWeave once ordered 1,400 of the wrong cabinets. It was a …

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iOS 18’s Rumored AI Features for Siri, Spotlight, and More Revealed in New Report

iOS 18’s Rumored AI Features for Siri, Spotlight, and More Revealed in New Report

Apple system features such as Siri and Spotlight Search are set to receive new AI features that work across apps like Messages, Mail, and Safari, AppleInsider reports. Safari will apparently gain a text summarization tool called Intelligent Browsing that allows users to generate a short summary of any webpage, and ‌Siri‌ could gain a similar …

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Some scientists can’t stop using AI to write research papers • The Register

Some scientists can’t stop using AI to write research papers • The Register

Linguistic and statistical analyses of scientific articles suggest that generative AI may have been used to write an increasingly large amount of scientific literature. Two academic papers assert that analyzing word choice in the corpus of science publications reveals an increasing usage of AI for writing research papers. One study, published in March by Andrew …

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SK hynix is teasing 300TB SSDs as it pushes into AI

SK hynix is teasing 300TB SSDs as it pushes into AI

SK hynix is working on a solid-state drive of unprecedented 30TGB capacity, the company revealed at a press conference in Seoul, South Korea on Thursday. The drive was pre-announced as a part of a broader product portfolio of products and technologies designed to evolve both datacenter and on-device AI capabilities.  Market researchers cited by SK …

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Billionaires Are Selling Nvidia Stock and Buying 2 Red-Hot Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stocks Instead

Billionaires Are Selling Nvidia Stock and Buying 2 Red-Hot Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stocks Instead

Several wealthy hedge fund managers sold shares of Nvidia during the fourth quarter, while purchasing shares of red-hot Palantir and Amazon. For many investors, Nvidia is the quintessential artificial intelligence (AI) stock. Its graphics processing units power many of the most advanced AI systems, and the company holds over 80% market share in AI processors. In …

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Humans vs. AI in Thrilling Cyberpunk Mystery

Humans vs. AI in Thrilling Cyberpunk Mystery

French director Jérémie Périn takes to another planet for an exciting sci-fi vision whose weighty ideas and sleek hand-drawn animation make for an intellectually stimulating combination. Fears of a future where artificial intelligence overpowers flesh-and-blood humans have always been a paramount tenet of sci-fi storytelling. And when these sentient robots closely resemble human behavior and …

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Hong Kong’s film industry is turning to AI to save time and money. Where do the humans come in?

Hong Kong’s film industry is turning to AI to save time and money. Where do the humans come in?

By creating realistic virtual locations, for example, there will be no need to fly actors and crew to different places, and audiences will not be able to tell the difference. There are other ways the new technology can work at various stages of making a film, right through to the tedious stage of post-production editing …

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